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Changing categories

When I first started blogging I was a bit befuddled about categories and tagging. I initially used categories for surnames in my genealogy research but soon found that was not working for me. As a result I have not categorized more that a handful of posts. Having now gained more experience of writing and viewed many genealogy blogs by other authors I can now see how categories can be used to make the blog easier to navigate. All of the old categories are going to be removed this weekend and I am going to try out a new set. My set of posts named “xx years ago today” will be categorised under:

Bygone birthdays

Wedlock when

Documenting demise

Among my other new categories are:

Alphabet activities

Publishing progress

I have now learned how to use the bulk edit function, so as the weekend progresses you should see most of my posts moved out of “uncategorized” and over to their new category. You can review the contents of each category from the panel at the right of the blog.

2 thoughts on “Changing categories”

Busier than I thought when I wrote the post Mike. Bulk edit works fine to add the new category but it does not seem to allow deletion of “uncategorised” so I may well have to go into every post :) Going to make it a lot easier for me to navigate round my “xx years ago today” posts though, so worth the effort. Have a good weekend.